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Worst release ever. It crashes. It's a resource hog. It fucks up my rocketdock. The pages run slower. I fucking hate when Mozzila gets popular, they always lose track of what made them popular in the first place.

Back to Opera or Chrome for me.

When is FF not a resource hog? I'm only using adblock and forecast fox and with two tabs open FF is raping 102,928K.

I agree time to check out Chrome.

Chrome's currently using 95Kb, running 6 windows/tabs. YUarr.

Bubble181 said:

Chrome's currently using 95Kb, running 6 windows/tabs. YUarr.

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Just make sure you're using the right number. Chrome is not in one process, but in as many processes as you have tabs (and at least one more beyond that). So you need to add them all up.

A simpler way inside of chrome (because it did it already) is to press the "control the current page" menu (second from the right), go to "developer" and then "task manager." That little window will give you a starting point, but then click the "stats for nerds" button. Because I have FF up at the same time, it actually gives a summary both for chrome AND for FF.

Bottom line: not as much better as you'd think, and at least for me, FF has a lot more tabs up right now than chrome does.

Oh this is easy. Why Firefox? Cause there is no safer way to surf the seedy side of the internet.

Though I will admit, I use Chrome for my usual "email/forums/wowsites/comics" surfing.

I like Chrome for its speed but I like FF for it's add-ons. I still find myself mainly using FF just because there are a few add-ons I really enjoy using.

I can't go on the the internet without Adblock+.

hylian said:

I like Chrome for its speed but I like FF for it's add-ons. I still find myself mainly using FF just because there are a few add-ons I really enjoy using.

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This, coupled with that ever since I went x64 and 4gb ram, I don't actually notice the larger memory use.

On a related note, Safari 4 sucks, too. I hope they fix the animated gif issue with the release of Snow Leopard. I love Safari for its "just browses the web" nature, but the slow rendering of animated gifs is killing forums for me. Apple blames it on WebKit.

Cuyval Dar said:

I can't go on the the internet without Adblock+.

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It's all about the NoScript

Chrome has some interesting points, but until it can match Firefox's "Type Ahead Find" functionality, I'm not going to use it as my main browser. Google needs to get the stick out of it's butt about deciding that Chrome has have as few options as possible. So what if a feature isn't for everyone, who is it going to hurt if you have another checkbox in an advanced menu, or even a hidden option in about:config? This is not something that's going to add bloat or change the memory footprint. Aslo, NO I'm not just going to use your kludge work-around that does almost the same thing with 3x as many keystrokes. You've got lots of people asking for it, put it in even if you can't have it as the default.

Chazwozel said:

Worst release ever. It crashes. It's a resource hog. It fucks up my rocketdock. The pages run slower. I fucking hate when Mozzila gets popular, they always lose track of what made them popular in the first place.

Back to Opera or Chrome for me.

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Huh. I have a different experience than you. 3.5.2 doesn't crash. It runs acceptably fast on my slow work machine (single core, 2GB ram... ) and plenty fast on my home machines.

It's a resource hog only because people demand speed, still it's much better about resources than 2.x.

The only thing I'd like improved has nothing to do with firefox itself, and everything to do with the extensions I have installed (Delicious and twitter fox) - they cause firefox to take more than a second or two to open the first time.

Such is life.

-Adam

Shegokigo said:

It's all about the NoScript

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I use no script and adblock +

stienman said:

Huh. I have a different experience than you. 3.5.2 doesn't crash. It runs acceptably fast on my slow work machine (single core, 2GB ram... ) and plenty fast on my home machines.

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Speaking of performance on slower machines, Firefox runs just fine on my netbook with it's Atom processor. I've tried Chrome there, but I didn't notice a huge difference in performance, in fact Chrome seems to do worse with a lot of tabs and images.

Plus, I don't get why Chrome doesn't have a fullscreen feature. I know the browser is supposed to be minimal so it doesn't need one, but on a netbook screen even a dozen extra pixels can be nice. On my big 1920x1080 desktop screen, I don't browse with my window maximixed, and it's nice to have F11 to quickly view a large image, and then go back to my normal size. It's not that quick to maximize a Chrome window, even though there are keyboard shortcuts to do it, they're multi-key sequences.

I know my pages sometimes freeze when using FireFox 3.5.2.

I have nothing but good experiences with Firefox 3.5.2, not so much with 3.5.1

To live without No Script would be to live without purpose.

figmentPez said:

Plus, I don't get why Chrome doesn't have a fullscreen feature. I know the browser is supposed to be minimal so it doesn't need one, but on a netbook screen even a dozen extra pixels can be nice. On my big 1920x1080 desktop screen, I don't browse with my window maximixed, and it's nice to have F11 to quickly view a large image, and then go back to my normal size. It's not that quick to maximize a Chrome window, even though there are keyboard shortcuts to do it, they're multi-key sequences.

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F11 goes full screen for me in chrome.

Yeah, 3.5.2 was a giant failure, so I switched back to 3.0.13 and everything has been running good.

P.S. I love Opera on my Omnia, even though some programs want to open IE which sucks balls.

Shakey said:

F11 goes full screen for me in chrome.

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Oh, good, they changed it. I was frustrated at that when Chrome first came out, and read a quote in an article saying that they weren't planning to implement it.

I've never had a problem with Firefox 3.5.2.

Sadly, or perhaps concerningly, I'm with Shego on this one. I use Chrome for my "legitimate" internet browsing (the forums, facebook, blogs, imdb, wikipedia, etc.) and FF for browsing porn... and nothing else. But I agree with Chaz, I've had nothing but problems with FF since I updated to 3.5.2.

Firefox for everything. I'm incredibly concerned with getting infected, as I haven't backed up in awhile.

Shegokigo said:

Oh this is easy. Why Firefox? Cause there is no safer way to surf the seedy side of the internet.

Though I will admit, I use Chrome for my usual "email/forums/wowsites/comics" surfing.

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hate to break it to you but opera is safer.

I basically use Firefox as a replacement for Chrome's Incognito mode.

All my normal surfing happens in Chrome.

Gurpel said:

hate to break it to you but opera is safer.

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not if you use NoScript and AdBlock+

Cuyval Dar said:

I can't go on the the internet without Adblock+.

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This.

Ever since I tried FF over IE years ago, FF has been king on my HDD's.

yea it can hog resources but honestly, for its security and customization, i'll pay that price

adblock + noscript + flashblock = one damn secure browser